Eugène du Pont (November 16, 1840 – January 28, 1902) was an American businessman who served as the first head of the modern-day DuPont corporation.

[4] After he graduated from Penn in 1861, he became an assistant to his older cousin, Lammot du Pont (1831–1884), at the Brandywine Mills laboratory and by 1886, filed two patent applications for a gunpowder press and new variety of powder, brown prismatic.

[1] As senior partner, du Pont saw the completion of a new office in Wilmington and the new invention called the telephone.

Together they had had:[2] Eugène du Pont died at his home in Christiana Hundred near Wilmington, Delaware on January 28, 1902.

[2] His daughter Amy Elizabeth du Pont was a prominent benefactor of the University of Delaware.